2. Do we have any reason to believe that Smith's assimilation wouldn't work on Lelouch.
I thought that only worked in the matrix on the data "avatars" of the people within. So I don't think it will work (though I vaguely remember some scene where it looked like Smith pulled shenanigans outside the matrix but I could be remembering the scene wrong)
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